Treatment of severe refractory valvar pulmonary stenosis with primary transcatheter pulmonary valve implantation

Cardiol Young. 2017 Aug;27(6):1232-1234. doi: 10.1017/S1047951117000191. Epub 2017 Mar 23.

Abstract

Some patients with pulmonary valve stenosis do not respond to balloon valvuloplasty and must undergo surgical repair. We report the case of a 12-year-old child with pulmonary valve stenosis and Noonan syndrome in whom we performed transcatheter Melody pulmonary valve implantation after balloon dilation failed. The result was excellent. This technique can be proposed as an alternative to surgery in such cases.

Keywords: CHD; Pulmonary valve disease; paediatrics; percutaneous intervention; percutaneous valve therapy; valvar pulmonary stenosis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Angiography
  • Balloon Valvuloplasty / adverse effects*
  • Cardiac Catheterization / methods*
  • Child
  • Echocardiography, Doppler
  • Female
  • Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / methods*
  • Humans
  • Noonan Syndrome / diagnosis*
  • Postoperative Complications
  • Prosthesis Design
  • Pulmonary Valve / surgery*
  • Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / diagnosis
  • Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / etiology
  • Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / surgery*
  • Reoperation